PANJIM: All India Kisan Sabha, Goa unit and Centre of Indian Trade Union, Goa unit has extended support to the nationwide bandh called by the agitating farmers on December 8, in protest of the new agricultural laws namely “The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020”, “The Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020” and “The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020”.
In a press note, AIKS general secretary Jatin Naik said, “We appeal the people of Goa to observe the bandh to express solidarity to the farmers of the country.”
He added, “This is yet another audacious attempt by the Modi government to accelerate the transfer of means of social production into the hands of a few large corporates; this time the corporate capital eying the agricultural sector of India like the vulture in the famous photograph by Kevin Carter. The corporatisation of agriculture, as we can imagine, will have disastrous effect not only on the farmers and peasants but also on the entire working class of the country. The corporatisation of agriculture will endanger food security of the majority of the masses and also facilitate the capturing of the agricultural lands by the corporate capital.”
He said the Modi government’s policy in the last 6 years can be summarised as patriotism in words and corporatism in deeds. “Even Goan peasants have been struggling to safeguard their conventional rights in recent times. From Sattari to Sanguem, peasants have faced encroachment on their lands by the government,” he says.
“The manner in which these laws which will affect the lives of crores of Indians have been passed is yet another example of the despotism characteristic of the Modi government,” he said.
